Use After Free Affecting openvswitch package, versions [,2.13.4)[2.15.0, 2.15.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPENVSWITCH-2369370
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Jul 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-36980  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openvswitch to version 2.13.4, 2.15.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. Open vSwitch (aka openvswitch) 2.11.0 through 2.15.0 has a use-after-free in decode_NXAST_RAW_ENCAP (called from ofpact_decode and ofpacts_decode) during the decoding of a RAW_ENCAP action.

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